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Summary: One of the Better Anime
Review: I agree that this has so many anime cliches that it's almost silly. Boy shoved into strange world. Boy with no expierience turns out to be incredible robot pilot for some mysterious reason. One of the cast is a strange girl who has trouble with emotions. Boy is kind and considerate and as a result ends up with multiple love interests. Giant robots funded by the military fight for dominance of Earth.That said, this is a damn good anime series. I never laughed out loud, except for that bit in episode 4 where the professor and the boy examine the shock absorption of the boy's feminine disguise, but I smiled a lot. Everything is kept rather light and the entire thing is just fun to watch. You know the Boy is going to expierience an intense emotional desire to save someone and then reach unprecedented levels of skill, it's a staple of almost all shows with giant fighting robots, and you know what will happen, but it doesn't seem boring. Instead it seems right, like they're following a formula that works, not one that gets repetitive and stale. And even if it is formulaic at times, there is enough original material to keep you guessing. Even the formulaic stuff seems executed in a new way. If you liked the stuff that this was based on then you'll like this. It took all the great elements from other series, added in a couple of its own twists, and produced a fine anime series.
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Summary: Great! The Makers of Tenchi Muyo Strike Another Gold Mine!
Review: I don't know about the next guy, but I think that this series was spot-on fantastic! Made by the same folks who brought us the hilarious Tenchi Muyo, they've got another REALLY good anime on their hands. In the real world, an ordinary boy named Kasuki Yotsuka gets transported to a parallel dimension where a war is going on by a mad scientist bent on taking over the world, but don't let that serious bare-bones plot fool you. If it's done by the guys who did Tenchi Muyo, then you know that it's gonna have a lot of hijinks thrown into the mix. Most of them center around his relationship with the most popular girl in school, Mitsuki Sonada (as well as the Tenchi-esque rivalry with other girls after his lucky self), and her father, a slightly mad scientist, named Ken (as well as his counterpart in the parallel world). It's the "Why, oh why does this stuff happen to me?" Kind of humor, and lovers of Tenchi and El Hazard (which BTW, is done by the same folks who did Tenchi) will love this particular anime... as will lovers of big mecha (that's giant robots for the anime uninitiated)which composes the bulk plot of this anime. And the detailed CGI animation mixed in with this show's vibrant cell animation is quite harmonious. This show, I tell you, has it all! In short, this is one not to be missed, so rent it, buy it, love it! I myself, can't wait for the next volume!
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining
Review: I ordered Dual without having seen it before. It had been recommended to me by some peopel I know. It was well worth the risk. The animation is beautiful, the sound crisp and clean, the extra's well put together and overall was very impressive. Content wise, the storyline strikes as a slightly less serious version of Neon Genesis Evangelion, whilst still retaining some thinking parts. The robots are very reminiscent of Evangelion, as are many of the characters. If you enjoyed Evangelion, I'd certainly recommend this. I was so impressed with this disc that I immediately ordered the rest of the series - a definite vote winner here.
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining
Review: I ordered Dual without having seen it before. It had been recommended to me by some peopel I know. It was well worth the risk. The animation is beautiful, the sound crisp and clean, the extra's well put together and overall was very impressive. Content wise, the storyline strikes as a slightly less serious version of Neon Genesis Evangelion, whilst still retaining some thinking parts. The robots are very reminiscent of Evangelion, as are many of the characters. If you enjoyed Evangelion, I'd certainly recommend this. I was so impressed with this disc that I immediately ordered the rest of the series - a definite vote winner here.
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Summary: A Must Buy !!
Review: In the beginning when you're watching this series, you could play Evangelion on a tv set right next to the one you're watching and the two series would be identical. But that is completely fine because Dual! is simply a great series even though it obviously copied from Tenchi and Eva. It has the best sense of humor that keeps you wanting to see more and wishing that it wouldn't end (I still think Mitsuki Sanada deserved much mor...n/m). The characters are done well and keep things light yet intriguing and all guys out there should watch Dual! just to see the "shock absorbers" scene. I was ROFL!
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Summary: Fun, light-hearted series
Review: The story opens with Kasuki, a high school student who's being plagued by incredibly real "visions" of mecha units engaged in furious warfare. The visions are so realistic that he posts descriptions of them on his website as a fictional story, contributing to his reputation as being "really weird" from his classmates. Initially dismissing the visions as merely intense daydreams, he's understandably reluctant to talk about it to anyone-- including Mitsuki, the class beauty who has taken an interest in his stories. While visiting Mitsuki's home, Kasuki is accidentally transported to a parallel world where he's shocked to discover that his "visions" of warfare are actually the reality of that world. And that he's very much alone. Despite having borrowed plot elements from several other anime series, Parallel Dual successfully creates it's own unique universe. Refreshingly fun and light-hearted, the series has some surprisingly emotional moments, especially as the climax approaches. While none of the characters or plot lines will be nominated for the Emmy Awards, they're certainly developed enough for the viewer to appreciate many of the emotions that the characters feel throughout the series. Parallel Dual doesn't break any new ground in either technology or plot devices, but it does succeed in being highly entertaining. As a side note, the series is strangely addictive. I found myself constantly feeding my DVD player until I had finished all four DVDs and then suddenly realized that eight hours had passed (much to my chagrin).
Rating:
Summary: Fun, light-hearted series
Review: The story opens with Kasuki, a high school student who's being plagued by incredibly real "visions" of mecha units engaged in furious warfare. The visions are so realistic that he posts descriptions of them on his website as a fictional story, contributing to his reputation as being "really weird" from his classmates. Initially dismissing the visions as merely intense daydreams, he's understandably reluctant to talk about it to anyone-- including Mitsuki, the class beauty who has taken an interest in his stories. While visiting Mitsuki's home, Kasuki is accidentally transported to a parallel world where he's shocked to discover that his "visions" of warfare are actually the reality of that world. And that he's very much alone. Despite having borrowed plot elements from several other anime series, Parallel Dual successfully creates it's own unique universe. Refreshingly fun and light-hearted, the series has some surprisingly emotional moments, especially as the climax approaches. While none of the characters or plot lines will be nominated for the Emmy Awards, they're certainly developed enough for the viewer to appreciate many of the emotions that the characters feel throughout the series. Parallel Dual doesn't break any new ground in either technology or plot devices, but it does succeed in being highly entertaining. As a side note, the series is strangely addictive. I found myself constantly feeding my DVD player until I had finished all four DVDs and then suddenly realized that eight hours had passed (much to my chagrin).
Rating:
Summary: Fun, light-hearted series
Review: The story opens with Kasuki, a high school student who's being plagued by incredibly real "visions" of mecha units engaged in furious warfare. The visions are so realistic that he posts descriptions of them on his website as a fictional story, contributing to his reputation as being "really weird" from his classmates. Initially dismissing the visions as merely intense daydreams, he's understandably reluctant to talk about it to anyone-- including Mitsuki, the class beauty who has taken an interest in his stories. While visiting Mitsuki's home, Kasuki is accidentally transported to a parallel world where he's shocked to discover that his "visions" of warfare are actually the reality of that world. And that he's very much alone. Despite having borrowed plot elements from several other anime series, Parallel Dual successfully creates it's own unique universe. Refreshingly fun and light-hearted, the series has some surprisingly emotional moments, especially as the climax approaches. While none of the characters or plot lines will be nominated for the Emmy Awards, they're certainly developed enough for the viewer to appreciate many of the emotions that the characters feel throughout the series. Parallel Dual doesn't break any new ground in either technology or plot devices, but it does succeed in being highly entertaining. As a side note, the series is strangely addictive. I found myself constantly feeding my DVD player until I had finished all four DVDs and then suddenly realized that eight hours had passed (much to my chagrin).
Rating:
Summary: Unoriginal, Yet Oddly Compelling
Review: There is nothing new to anime in the first DVD of Dual. Everything that does not smack of a previously issued AIC series (like Tenchi Muyo, El-Hazard or Photon) is obviously borrowed from Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion. Even some of the characters can be best summarized as hybrids of existing characters: Kazuki, the male lead, is Eva's Shinji crossed with El-Hazard's Makoto. Mitsuki's father owes equal parts to Gendo Ikari (Eva, again) and Fujisawa-sensei (El-Hazard, again) and possibly even Nobuyuki, Tenchi's father. That said, though, the series is just plain fun. Possibly more than any other AIC Series I've seen so far, it knows how to have subtle fun with itself. You know what's coming and the series has fun with that. Nothing's original, but nothing's boring, either. Somehow, the producers once again find a way to make you wonder about the fate of the characters (and the world[s] they inhabit) even though, if it's anything like Tenchi, El-Hazard or Photon (and it probably will be), the answers are probably quite obvious. I highly recommend this disc even though there's nothing really new about it. It's a lot of fun. It was the first anime series in quite some time to make me actively eager for the next installment to come out.
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Summary: To the reviewer at the top
Review: This is a very decent anime, just put 1 star to get your attention to the guy at the top who was dissing evangelion. The last 2 episodes on the last video is not the acuall ending to evangelion, The end entiled "The end of evangelion" was only released in Japan and is currently undergoing work to bring it here. I imported the ending and watched it since i speak fluent japanese. The last 2 episodes we recieved in the US was just shinjy under the instermentality that they talk about through the whole series. The real ending to Evangelion shows what happens to adam and lilith and the eva's etc etc. Third impact happens and a very stunning moment when rei.. well you have to see it for yourself. It is probably the best piece of film ever put on film, and i think that everone, not just anime fans, should experience the masterpiece of evangelion
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